Spurgeon Meditations

 

When I passed by thee, I said unto thee, Live.

Eze 16 6

Saved one consider gratefully this mandate (of mercy. Note that this fiat of God is majestic. In our text we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by in His glory; l He looks. He pauses and He pronounces the solitary but royal word Live. There speaks a God. Who but He could venture thus to deal with life and dispense it with a single syllable? Again this fiat is manifold. When He saith "Live it includes many things. Hereis judicial life. The sinner is ready to be condemned, but themighty One saith, Live and he rises pardoned and absolved. Itis spiritual life. We knew not Jesus--our eyes could not seeChrist, our ears could not hear His voice--Jehovah said Live and we were quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins.Moreover, it includes glory-life, which is the perfection ofspiritual life. I said unto thee Live:" and that word rolls on through all the years of time till death comes and in the midst of the shadows of death the Lord's voice is still heard Live! In the morning of the resurrection it is that self-same voice which is echoed by the arch-angel Live, and as holy spirits rise to heaven to be blest for ever in the glory of their God it is in the power of this same word Live. Note again that it is an irresistible mandate. Saul of Tarsus is on the road to Damascus to arrest the saints of the living God. A voice is heard from heaven and a light is seen above the brightness of the sun and Saul is crying out Lord, what wiltthou have me to do? This mandate is a mandate of free grace. When sinners are saved it is only and solely because God will do it to magnify His free unpurchased unsought grace. Christians see your position debtors to grace; show your gratitude by earnest Christlike lives and as God has bidden you live see to it that you live in earnest.


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